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		wowokay on July 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable... I know from experience that similar setups tend to have the workstation load the verifone updates, so a package could be inserted, it would take some more insider knowledge.

Too on July 25, 2022 [–]

Do these payment terminals have secure boot or other forms of update payload verification?

In that case the risk of accepting malicious updates from insecure touch screen would be much less.

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